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Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.
Walter Savage Landor
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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
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Warwick
Warwickshire
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Always
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Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.
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Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.
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Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
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A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.
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Justice is often pale and melancholy but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
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Fame, they tell you, is air but without air there is no life for any without fame there is none for the best.
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God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it and the other's when we have had it for some time.
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Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other facesPride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
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We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it but we avoid such as differ from us.
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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Every good writer has much idiom it is the life and spirit of language.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
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Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.
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